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I had posted about this a couple weeks ago, now there is some research into Russia poisoning AI data sources.

The network—dubbed "Pravda," a nod to the Soviet-era newspaper—has been systematically injecting AI chatbots with false narratives by gaming search engines and web crawlers. The implications are severe: AI models are increasingly echoing Kremlin-backed falsehoods, compromising information integrity at an unprecedented scale.

NewsGuard’s audit of 10 leading generative AI tools—including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot—found that the models repeated Pravda’s false narratives 33 percent of the time.

John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive turned Kremlin propagandist, laid out this strategy bluntly in a Moscow conference earlier this year: “By pushing these Russian narratives from the Russian perspective, we can actually change worldwide AI.” Dougan’s statement underscores a key objective of the Pravda network: weaponizing AI-generated content to reshape global narratives in Russia’s favor.

It syndicates misleading content across 150 seemingly independent websites, each optimized for AI and search engine algorithms. This includes fabricated claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky misappropriating military aid and false reports of U.S. bioweapons labs in Ukraine.

NewsGuard’s findings align with those of the American Sunlight Project (ASP), a U.S. nonprofit that has termed this strategy “LLM grooming.” According to ASP, the more frequently a false narrative appears in search results and indexed content, the greater the likelihood that large language models (LLMs) will absorb and regurgitate it.

“The long-term risks—political, social, and technological—associated with potential LLM grooming within this network are high,” the ASP report warned. “The larger a set of pro-Russia narratives is, the more likely it is to be integrated into an LLM.”

https://www.enterprisesecuritytech.c...tern-ai-models

Russia is winning a war we didn't even know was happening.